Spatial niche formation but not malignant progression is a driving force for intratumoural heterogeneity

It has been increasingly recognised that tumours are not made up of a homogeneous population of cells. Here, the authors show heterogeneous expression of five protein markers in renal cell cancer and demonstrate that the progression of the tumour does not influence the degree of heterogeneity in the...

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Main Authors: Rouven Hoefflin, Bernd Lahrmann, Gregor Warsow, Daniel Hübschmann, Cathleen Spath, Britta Walter, Xin Chen, Luisa Hofer, Stephan Macher-Goeppinger, Yanis Tolstov, Nina Korzeniewski, Anette Duensing, Carsten Grüllich, Dirk Jäger, Sven Perner, Gita Schönberg, Joanne Nyarangi-Dix, Sanjay Isaac, Gencay Hatiboglu, Dogu Teber, Boris Hadaschik, Sascha Pahernik, Wilfried Roth, Roland Eils, Matthias Schlesner, Holger Sültmann, Markus Hohenfellner, Niels Grabe, Stefan Duensing
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11845